My Rainbow Dress for Pride Month! (simplicity 8013)

Love is love and to celebrate this I made a rainbow dress for pride month. I love this dress so much and feel like the queen of joy when I wear it! I've been hanging onto this fabric for a while after finding a whole bolt of it at a garage sale for 5 US bucks (for the whole bolt!!!). Just waiting for the right inspiration and I finally found it! I did make a few modifications from the original pattern simplicity 8013. The original pattern has a zipper in the back. I took that out and turned it into a true wrap dress.

I added around two inches to the neckline so my ladies wouldn't pop out. I started at the shoulders and then tapered the line out making it widest at the bottom. Which also helped with my waist line so that was a win win.

Extra width was added to the skirt pieces to compensate for the larger waist.

I liked it how it was, but because of the cut of the skirt I didn't feel like it had enough of the red and blue colors so I added a gathered apron to the front. Well it's like an apron I guess but it's sewn into the waistline. Then I did the same thing for the back of the dress by sewing a strip of the gathered fabric to the inside of the neck and it drapes all the way to the floor. Sewn down at the waist which is covered by the ties.

The back of the dress is cut on the fold of the fabric. which is different from the pattern as well.

If I'm remembering right the only other change I made was adding a lot of length to the ties. In the original pattern it's just a sash not attached to the dress.

If you have any questions put it in the comments and hopefully I'll have an answer for you. :) Life gets kind of crazy sometimes and I don't get to comments very often. Sorry about that.

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